"Believing Is Seeing" is a concise scientific work concerned with human visual perception. Michael W. Levine’s "Believing Is Seeing" is an accessible overview of the many ways that human eyes differentiate the light and stimuli they... Read More

In Pilar Quintana’s engrossing novel "The Bitch", a woman’s search for companionship leads her to an orphaned puppy. Damaris and her husband, Rogelio, have an uneasy, distant relationship. They live in a shack on a bluff near the... Read More

Jarad Greene’s graphic novel "Scullion" romps through its medieval setting with humor, surprises, and a positive attitude. Darlis works as a dishwasher for the royal family. His mother has plans for him to follow her into the... Read More

Ryad Girod’s haunting novel, Mansour’s Eyes, is threaded with Middle Eastern cultural and geopolitical sagas. Hussein was an anguished observer on the day his friend, Mansour, was led through the streets and decapitated in the main... Read More

The screenplay "Streetcar Sandwiches" is a dystopian takedown of government oversight gone awry. Curtis Orloff’s screenplay "Streetcar Sandwiches" is a dystopian work about the consequences of a Big Brother state. The story is set in... Read More

The two girls central to Kim Sagwa’s haunting "b, Book, and Me" face bullying, their parents’ indifference, and a sense of helpless displacement. Teachers pretend not to notice what happens to Rang and b, averting their eyes or... Read More

"Disfigured" is a fascinating exploration of how disabilities are treated within fairy tales and of how those treatments help to shape social attitudes and perceptions. Part literary examination, part cultural critique, and part memoir,... Read More

In 2005, twenty-year-old engineering student Kenton Carnegie took a walk near his work site in a remote part of Saskatchewan, but never returned. Colleagues who found his body saw that it had been dragged and had wolf tracks nearby.... Read More